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Nov. 18th, 2002 03:27 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rushthatspeaksWith any luck, things are going to slow down for a while shortly. Or at least, academic stuff is. I am in reasonable shape on Greek; I have all the stuff memorized that I need to memorize, but I have this weird mental block in which I can't remember stuff when I am actually trying to use it. Other stuff, well, the Cities presentation today went okay, and the paper isn't till next week, and my Econ exam is tomorrow but after that nothing major in any of my classes till well after Thanksgiving. Which is good.
We've started our new set of winter music for Renaissance Choir, too. We're doing the Credo from the Missa O Magnum Mysterium of Tomas Luis de Victoria, and learning the entire rest of the Mass for performance in spring. I've never sung a whole Mass before; it will be interesting, especially since I know there are some conventions about what one does with the melody in various places, but I don't know what those conventions are. We're also doing the usual range of insanely esoteric Christmas music-- I do not know where our director finds these, really I don't, some of them have never been recorded which for Renaissance music in this day and age means *no one* has ever heard of them-- and some carols we always do, including Vaughn Williams' No Sad Thought His Soul Affright and my absolute favorite, Michael Praetorius' Es Ist Ein Rose Entsprungen (or Lo, A Rose E'erblooming for the non-German speakers). The one problem is, as it always is, that everyone wants to sing so many pieces of music that there is no way we can possibly learn them all in time for the concert, but we'll certainly try; this choir is founded on the firm belief by all of its members and the director that we can, in fact, sing anything, no matter how many parts it has, no matter how difficult/obscure/complicated it is, and no matter how badly we suck at it the first umpteen zillion times we try it. That's why it's made me a much better musician than I was when I started. Determination. I'm feeling about ready, maybe next semester when I can switch into a Scottish experienced class that won't meet on Wednesday nights, to join Chorale or something if they're doing one of the great Requiems or something like that. Try my hand at something like the Saint Matthew Passion. Of course, next semester I'm taking five classes and probably working at least one job, so we'll see.
We've started our new set of winter music for Renaissance Choir, too. We're doing the Credo from the Missa O Magnum Mysterium of Tomas Luis de Victoria, and learning the entire rest of the Mass for performance in spring. I've never sung a whole Mass before; it will be interesting, especially since I know there are some conventions about what one does with the melody in various places, but I don't know what those conventions are. We're also doing the usual range of insanely esoteric Christmas music-- I do not know where our director finds these, really I don't, some of them have never been recorded which for Renaissance music in this day and age means *no one* has ever heard of them-- and some carols we always do, including Vaughn Williams' No Sad Thought His Soul Affright and my absolute favorite, Michael Praetorius' Es Ist Ein Rose Entsprungen (or Lo, A Rose E'erblooming for the non-German speakers). The one problem is, as it always is, that everyone wants to sing so many pieces of music that there is no way we can possibly learn them all in time for the concert, but we'll certainly try; this choir is founded on the firm belief by all of its members and the director that we can, in fact, sing anything, no matter how many parts it has, no matter how difficult/obscure/complicated it is, and no matter how badly we suck at it the first umpteen zillion times we try it. That's why it's made me a much better musician than I was when I started. Determination. I'm feeling about ready, maybe next semester when I can switch into a Scottish experienced class that won't meet on Wednesday nights, to join Chorale or something if they're doing one of the great Requiems or something like that. Try my hand at something like the Saint Matthew Passion. Of course, next semester I'm taking five classes and probably working at least one job, so we'll see.
Job?
Date: 2002-11-19 03:33 pm (UTC)